Bloody Bay, Little Cayman, Ilhas Cayman

Randy's Gazebo

Randy's Gazebo is one of the most photogenic dives in the Bloody Bay Wall Marine Park on Little Cayman, named for a coral chimney structure that resembles a gazebo, with windows of light and sponge-encrusted columns. The site sits at the western end of the Bloody Bay Wall system. Divers descend from a mooring in roughly 8 metres of reef plateau and head out through narrow coral-walled mini-canyons that lead down through the chimney swim-through, exiting onto the main wall face around 21 to 27 metres. The wall plunges vertically beyond 1,800 metres into the deep Caribbean. The chimney walls and wall face are covered in giant orange elephant-ear sponges, barrel sponges, deepwater sea fans, black coral, sheet corals, rope sponges and yellow tube sponges. Resident wildlife: Nassau grouper, midnight parrotfish, hawksbill and green turtles, eagle rays, Caribbean reef sharks, schools of horse-eye jacks, queen and French angelfish, blue chromis. Year-round Marine Park visibility commonly exceeds 30 metres. The chimney navigation rates the dive intermediate.